CBP on Dec. 30 created Harmonized System Update 2543 containing 4,893 Automated Broker Interface records and 872 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. HSU 2543 includes the end-of-year Harmonized Tariff Schedule updates, effective Jan. 1.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Dec. 30, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
Effective Feb. 6, CBP is transitioning to electronic refunds instead of offering refunds by check. The agency is set to publish an interim final rule in the Federal Register outlining how it will do so, noting that the third party designated on CBP Form 4811 will continue to be valid after the transition goes fully into effect.
China published its 2026 tariff plan this week, outlining new rates for hundreds of commodities while lowering duties on other items, the country's Ministry of Finance said Dec. 29, according to an unofficial translation.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Dec. 30 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department is setting new antidumping duty cash deposit requirements for imports of polypropylene corrugated boxes from Vietnam (A-552-850), after finding imports of the containers are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value, in the preliminary determination of its AD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements generally take effect Dec. 31, 2025, but Commerce is making the suspension of liquidation and AD cash deposits retroactive to approximately Oct. 2, 2025, for some Vietnamese companies.
On Dec. 29, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service is decreasing the value assigned to imported cotton, which will affect the calculation of supplemental assessments used by the Cotton Research and Promotion Program, according to a Federal Register notice. AMS amends the Cotton Board Rules and Regulations and increases or decreases the value each year to ensure that assessments collected on imported cotton and the cotton content of imported products will be the same as those paid on domestically produced cotton.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is modifying the allocations of in-quota quantity under the annual beef tariff-rate quota, by its authority under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, according to a Federal Register notice.
The White House said it has made an agreement with Israel to offer permanent concessions on some agricultural products, the outlines of which were first established in 2004, but since there needs to be more time to make the permanent modifications, it is offering one more year of duty-free access.